Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. She strikes a deal to house him in exchange for his ...

"When a mortal masquerades as God here below, she is forsaken by all and she must always die alone", so the story, "Stanadayini" ("Breast-Giver", 1980) by Mahasweta Devi goes. The short story is a ...

But the novel series is not yet complete: Martin has promised two more books to come ... including its point of view characters, plot threads that will be addressed, and whether it will follow ...

With TV hits like Girlfriends, The Game, and Being Mary Jane under her belt, Mara Brock Akil is a bona fide legend—and her latest project, Netflix’s swoon-worthy Forever, is the newest TV show I can’t ...

E ver since Frank Herbert released his seminal sci-fi novel Dune in 1965, readers have been consumed by the expansive and ...

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It’s a classic case of narrative convenience, as the main villain needs to be understood immediately to pose a credible threat and move the plot forward. So, having him roar in Cybertronian ...

The concept of questioning what’s real or fabricated, especially in the age of performance and state-run media, plays heavily into the themes of the book. That interrogation of perception vs.

It’s the latter we’re here to talk about today, because when a plot twist is done right, nobody sees it coming. It hits like a train and resonates for years. Sometimes, a twist can be a ...

And mine is a little backward from other people in that, usually the first thing that will come to me is either some middle-of-the-book plot twist for characters I don’t even know yet ...

In case you're new here, the Hunger Games franchise has gotten yet another chapter with the prequel, Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which first arrived in book form and will really soon be ...